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  • Newton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Neil Alan Halvorson, Dorothy Vinson Hull, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0259

    Trial Court Did Not Err When it Denied Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence of Out-of-Court IDs Made by Witnesses Using a Photographic Lineup

  • Stinchcomb v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Stevens Schrope, Marcia Gail Shein, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Smyrna, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0355

    Trial Court Erred by Denying Appellant's Extraordinary Motion for a New Trial Without an Evidentiary Hearing

  • Shealey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackie Glenn Patterson, (Patterson Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John H. Cranford, Jr., John Clinton Winne, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0185

    Trial Court Did Not Abuse its Discretion by Excluding From Evidence Statements That Co-Indictee Made During His Guilty Plea Hearing

  • Lyons v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Darius T. Pattillo, Sharon Lee Hopkins, James Luther Wright, (Flint Circuit District Attorneys Office), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0536

    Allowing Jurors to Review Written and Recorded Statements in Courtroom Did Not Violate Continuing Witness Rule

  • Rouzan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica M. O'Grady, Brandon A. Bullard, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0414

    Trial Court Erred in Applying Obsolete Legal Standard to Allow Prosecution to Introduce Other-Acts Evidence

  • Owensby v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-06-23
    Practice Area: Evidence | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Norman Sawyer, (Litner + Deganian), Atlanta, Douglas Chanco, (Chanco Schiffer Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Ruplin, (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, Russell Waldon, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0652

    Portions of Medical Narrative on Personal Injury Plaintiff's Condition and Prognosis Ruled Inadmissible as Too Vague and Speculative Were, in Fact, Admissible; Case Remanded

  • Hampton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0482

    Trial Court Properly Admitted Hearsay Testimony of Jailhouse Informant and Was Correct in Excluding the Testimony of Defendant's Proposed Alibi Witness

  • Hood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Zina B. Gumbs, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0343

    No Reasonable Probability That Engaging Independent Firearms Expert Would Have Altered Trial Result

  • Walker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bentley C. Adams, IV, (Georgia Public Defender), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Anne Fessenden Slater, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0170

    Supreme Court Had Jurisdiction to Hear Pro Se New Trial Motion After Trial Court Authorized Self-Representation

  • Sullivan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0309

    Defendant's Request to Admit Psychological Evaluation Properly Denied